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Autograph letter signed : Bruton Street [London], to Earl Spencer, [1801?] May. 7.

BIB_ID
126223
Accession number
MA 1270.44
Creator
Pulteney, James, Sir, approximately 1751-1811.
Display Date
[1801?] May. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
The year of writing is not given however Earl Spencer was the First Lord of the Admiralty in 1801.
Volume 13 (MA 1270) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1270.1-50).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Recommending Lieutenant Cockburne for the command of a ship.